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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary

1911, from German Gen, coined 1905 by Danish scientist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen (1857-1927), from Greek genea "generation, race" (see genus). De Vries had earlier called them pangenes. Gene pool is attested from 1950.

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gene

n. (context genetics English) A unit of heredity; a segment of DNA or RNA that is transmitted from one generation to the next, and that carries genetic information such as the sequence of amino acids for a protein.

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gene

n. (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors" [syn: cistron, factor]

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Gene (band)

Gene were an English alternative rock quartet that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s. Formed in 1993, they were popularly labelled as a Britpop band and often drew comparisons to The Smiths because of their Morrissey-esque lead singer, Martin Rossiter. Gene's music was influenced by The Jam, The Small Faces, The Style Council and The Clash.

Gene (novel)

Gene is a thriller novel by Stel Pavlou (born 1970), published in 2005 in England by Simon & Schuster. It is published in several languages with some title changes. The Italian edition has the title La Conspirazione del Minotauro (The Minotaur Conspiracy). The novel is about a fictional New York detective, James North, who in the process of hunting down a criminal, uncovers a genetics experiment to unlock past lives through genetic memory, therefore achieving a kind of immortality. In so doing North discovers his own origins, that of a soldier from the Trojan War who is reincarnated seven times through history, forced to confront his nemesis each time, all for the loss of his one true love.

Gené

Gené may refer to:

People

Giuseppe Gené (1800–1847), Italian naturalist and author

Jordi Gené (born 1970), Spanish racing driver

Marc Gené (born 1974), Spanish racing driver

Places

Gené, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France

Usage examples of "gene".

The teams are all looking at variants on a simple, cheap technique that involves putting antigen genes into harmless bacteria that will double as delivery vehicles and adjuvants, then freeze-drying them into spores that can survive tropical heat without refrigeration.

The mysticism of the gods resides in my genes, and is strengthened by those of the alchemist and the Cabrilan will.

His blood was infused with the genes of the alchemist and the God, Arcus.

So it was that Asquith purged his body of all nanotechnology, reversed some minor gene engineering, and arrived on Ambergris just in time for some of the excitement he thought he was seeking.

For instance, the company has picked a group of genes it believes will be important for diagnostics and other applications and is concentrating its annotation efforts on them.

It was down one of the endlessly dividing data branches growing out of that single muffled reference to the set of synthetic genes that had been derived from the embryonic switching mechanisms of the axolotl and the fearsome dragonfly nymph.

The Bienvenue cheque, the Ruysdael substitution, the information about Gene Marck as an Intelligence agent in that last phone call from Lois Westerbrook .

Stuart Kauffman, chief scientific officer and co-founder of Cistem Molecular and leading entrepreneur in the developing field of bioinformatics, discusses how computers may be used to determine the circuitry and logic of genes and cells.

From the undoubted fact that gene mutations like the Tay-Sachs mutation or chromosomal abnormalities like the extra chromosome causing Down syndrome are the sources of pathological variation, human geneticists have assumed that heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, and bipolar syndrome must also be genetic variants.

Me, I lolloped and leapt for my life at the other end, 200 pounds of yob genes, booze, snout and fast food, ten years older, charred and choked on heavy fuel, with no more to offer than my block drive and backhand chip.

The word cistron has been used for a unit defined in this way, and some people use the word gene interchangeably with cistron.

The answer is that one gene in the sense of a cistron probably cannot.

Even a cistron is occasionally divisible and any two genes on the same chromosome are not wholly independent.

To define a gene as a single cistron is good for some purposes, but for the purposes of evolutionary theory it needs to be enlarged.